Fellow 2023-2024 David Wilson
David Wilson is Professor of Geography and Urban Planning at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, affiliated with the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory. He earned his Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 1985 and holds a B.A. from the State University of New York at Albany, which he completed in 1978.
Recent publications include "Toward a Dracula Urbanism: Smart City Building in Flint and Jakarta” (D. Wilson and E. Wyly, 2023), “Silencing, Urban Growth Machines, and the Obama Presidential Center on Chicago's South Side” (T. Schwarze and D. Wilson, 2022), "The People as Infrastructure Concept: Appraisal and New Directions, Urban Geography” (D. Wilson and A. Jonas, 2022), “People as Infrastructure Politics in Global North Cities: Chicago's South Side” (D. Wilson, 2022), L. and D. Wilson, 2022 "Planning the City for People of Color. In D. Pojani (ed.) Alternative Planning Theory (London: Routledge), "Decline Machines and Economic Development: Rust Belt Cities and Flint, Michigan” (Heil, M., Turner, L. and D. Wilson, 2022), "Economic Development and the New Immigrant Segregationist Politics in Suburban Chicago” (Wilson, D., 2020).